BiogeographyBiogeography, Second Edition combines ecological and historical perspectives to show how contemporary environments, earth history, and evolutionary processes have shaped the distributions of species and the patterns of biodiversity. It illustrates general patterns and processes using examples from different groups of plants and animals from diverse habitats and geographic regions. Written primarily for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in plant and/or animal geography, the book serves as a general synthesis and reference as well. |
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... Figure 13.5 ) . Similar cli- matic regimes tend to support structurally and functionally similar vegetation in ... Figure 4.12 . Note that the occurrence of biomes corresponds approximately to the distribution of climatic zones ( Figure ...
... Figure 13.5 ) . Similar cli- matic regimes tend to support structurally and functionally similar vegetation in ... Figure 4.12 . Note that the occurrence of biomes corresponds approximately to the distribution of climatic zones ( Figure ...
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... Figure 10.7 . Lepidoseriformes Ceratodontid fossils Figure 10.9 Present distribution ( hatching ). Temperate Eurasia North America Orient South America Africa IKK Figure 10.8 morphs ( Osteoglossomorpha ) , that have South- ern Hemisphere ...
... Figure 10.7 . Lepidoseriformes Ceratodontid fossils Figure 10.9 Present distribution ( hatching ). Temperate Eurasia North America Orient South America Africa IKK Figure 10.8 morphs ( Osteoglossomorpha ) , that have South- ern Hemisphere ...
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... ( Figure 17.14 , A ) . If , on the other hand , environmental changes are relatively slight or infrequent , then one might expect that most of the time species richness will be approaching the carrying capacity of the environment for the ...
... ( Figure 17.14 , A ) . If , on the other hand , environmental changes are relatively slight or infrequent , then one might expect that most of the time species richness will be approaching the carrying capacity of the environment for the ...
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adapted adaptive radiation Africa angiosperms animals aquatic areas Australasia Australia barriers biogeographic biotas biotic Cenozoic changes Chapter cies cladistic cladogram climate colonization communities competition continental continental drift continents Cretaceous desert disjunctions distributions drift eastern ecological elevation endemic environment Eocene Eurasia evolution evolutionary example extinction families fauna Figure fishes forms fossil record freshwater genera geographic ranges geologic Gondwanaland groups Guinea habitats inhabiting insects insular interactions isolated lakes land bridge landmasses latitudes limited living long-distance dispersal MacArthur Madagascar mainland major mammals marine Mesozoic migration million years BP mountain Neotropics niches North Northern Hemisphere number of species occur oceanic islands organisms origin Pacific Paleocene patterns phylogenetic plants plate Pleistocene polyploidy populations predators present radiation rain forest reconstructions regions relationships relatively Simberloff similar soil South America southern speciation species richness taxa taxon taxonomic temperate temperature terrestrial tion tropical vegetation vicariance World zone